Cybercrime is largely understood to involve a large range of criminal activities that involves the use of computers, digital devices, and the Internet. Despite the first recorded cyber crime taking place in the year 1820, cybercrime still does not have a universally accepted definition in literature. Cybercrimes are classified based on the role of technology and criminal mode of operation by most authors.
We’re in an era where children younger than ever have access to such an endless amount of
material – one of that being everything cybercrime. Children are growing up in an era where there are tremendous amount of opportunities – they can see going black hat as the easiest way to making lots of money.
Companies are employing people way younger than ever to work as cyber security specialists and penetration testers and these is because young people know so much, easily motivated and learn so fast they are perfect delegates to grow up into world class cyber specialists. Whether people go the white hat route or become black hat hackers is a story to be told another day .
While a majority of people often think hacking as the main form of cybercrime, there’s a totally different side on the Deep Web. Many young people above the age of 14 have probably heard of the deep web. Maybe they’ve seen their favorite YouTuber make a video on it or maybe they’ve just heard a friend speak about it and maybe had even read of it on some random blog.
Anyway, it’s well known topic within the youth. A Combination of a young person's knowledge of the dark web and the ever growing drug abuse within the youth and you have many people who will find their way into buying illegal drugs off Darknet Markets.
Diving even deeper into the equation, eventually these kids or young ones won’t want to be buying their goods on the Deep Web, they’ll want to be selling it because there’s high demand, and it seems easy. Imagine just pop some ecstasy in a package, drop it off at the post office or at a park and they’ve got some easy money. Or do they?
With computer science being taught at many schools around the world, not only have we got teenagers or youths who want to make money, but we’ve got teenagers or youth that have the ability to create new Marketplaces in which illegal goods or services can be sold on.
This would only take a few entrepreneurial minds and people who can code to find the current gap of quality markets to pull this off. A new era of cyber criminals is upon us, one which is more determined,visionary and deadly than their predecessors and we are almost powerless to stop it.